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you slouch into the passenger seat of your dad’s station wagon and absorb the wisdom of a Baptist preacher. His words search for you across radiowaves; vibrations find your bony body in the back roads …  Read More

Nowadays the vines are mulling their own, backwashing blackberries for reprieve. Wine-drunk they curl like tongues licking at the back of the throat for a little taste of themself, flavor already aftertaste. The drupelets’ sable …  Read More

Now like any good Texas story, I will take you on a ride and you will swear you are not going to reach your expected destination, yet somehow, every blacktop road coalesces into a place …  Read More

If I could return— to the boy I once was, the child with quiet eyes, sickly body, and a spirit shrinking under the weight of names not chosen, I would kneel beside him at six …  Read More

We are proud to present Reverb of Resistance, a powerful evening of live music, visual art, and community connection, taking place Thursday, June 25 at The Grey Eagle Music Hall. The event is produced by …  Read More

  This collaged erasure, titled “introduction,” is part of a larger project I’m working on, As the Mobile Moves: a memoir in literary experiments. I envision this beetle poem as both an introduction and a …  Read More

I see you, and all I want to do is make you smile with a deep belly laugh that stretches from fingertips to the toes that wiggle in the sandbox trying to be free and …  Read More

I love you, your shaggy Beatles haircut, Greenday t-shirts, bell bottoms, platform Sketchers, the way your violin sings and stirs others to do something about something that matters.   Feeling unloved, unseen, unimportant, misunderstood, abandoned, …  Read More